The Luque surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,296 people carried this name — #13,283 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 128,200 people counted. That is up 48% from 1,549 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 30,918 people named Luque live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 258 people named Luque.
Most of them — 130 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 28 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
95 people named Luque live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Luque in American newspapers,
1919–1926.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 13,565 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Luque,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mateo Luque 1820–1874 · politician -
Agustín de Luque y Coca 1850–1937 · military personnel -
Manuel Luque 1853–1924 · lithographer -
Manuel Luque 1853–1919 · lithographer
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Manuel Luque 1854–1924 · lithographer
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Jose Luque Schurman d. 1973 · chauffeur
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Luque.
- Lupfer 366 · U.S. census
- Lupi 699 · U.S. census
- Lupin 133 · U.S. census
- Lupo 5,425 · U.S. census
- Luppi 146 · U.S. census
- Luppino 830 · U.S. census
- Luquin 1,101 · U.S. census
- Lurie 2,405 · U.S. census
- Lusardi 693 · U.S. census
- Luscher 388 · U.S. census
- Lussier 4,786 · U.S. census
- Lusso 146 · U.S. census
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